Artists’ Architecture I used the work of Archigram and Richard Hamilton, John Voelckerand John McHale’s contribution to the Independent Group’s exhibition from 1956 This is Tomorrow atthe Whitechapel in London to explore the legacy of pop culture and ‘paper’ architecture in relationto what I saw as the increasing commodification of the art world in the 1980’s. The collaborativenature of these artist/architect groups, particularly the making of exhibitions, allowed themto explore ideas in a much more nuanced way than mere object making. For this exhibition oncontemporary Artists’ Architecture I reconstructed several models of their work in ‘peep’ showform to explore latent questions in their practices. With Archigram I was interested in how theirnotions of utopia transformed to distopia.

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​This is evident if you trace their history through 1964’sThe Walking City where all the apartment